Sentences with phrase «not jockeying»

As we'll see in the performance section, that gives business users some considerable leeway with gaming when they're not jockeying spreadsheets and PowerPoints.

«One of the fundamental shifts in state government over the past few years is we're not warring with the business community, we're not jockeying with the business community, we're working partnership with the business community,» Cuomo told reporters after the endorsement event.

He said he's not jockeying for that job or any other appointment from a potential Trump White House.

He was finishing fastest of all in the Wood and conceivably might have won had not Jockey Pete Anderson found himself pocketed against the rail in the last sixteenth with plenty of live horse under him and no place to go.

Not exact matches

A core tenet of employee engagement is that there are few things more motivating to most workers than being heard; it's hard to imagine even the most jaded desk jockey wouldn't feel a little bit chuffed when the person at the top of the org chart looks her in the eyes and asks her what she thinks.

Here's the hard truth: the code jockeys who built the problems at these companies aren't going to get them to the next level of solutions.

The smartest investors bet on the jockey, not the horse and nothing is more important for a successful business than the strong leadership skills of the senior management team.

First, there is the high - control environment, used by business people who are not necessarily code jockeys to create applications that fit their compliance needs.

Seasoned desk jockeys like us want — and need — office furniture that's not only innovative and beautiful, but also practical and comfortable.

But Jockey, the venerable U.S. underwear manufacturer, says women needed a new system, citing widespread complaints that A to D sizes aren't consistent across brands and that they factor in size, but not the shape, of breasts.

And I haven't even mentioned internal partner dynamics where a firm feels 1 — 2 partners have more shitty deals than others and therefore each partner might be jockeying to get his or her deals saved and with scarce resources some will get what they want and some won't.

Today's much - anticipated speech by President Obama unveiling his latest jobs plan is not just an opportunity to jockey for political position, it's an opportunity for investors.

Now, said Domestic Policy Council Director Cecilia Muñoz said, «the folks who were jockeying to get into meetings or struggling over manifests are just kind of not around anymore.»

Despite the left wing citing numerous surveys for lifting DADT and claiming a lack of any supporting keeping it, numerous surveys have been done that show front line soldiers, not air force desk jockeys, are against it.

jimtanker Don't forget the NEXT war, where the Jeebus freaks shall follow the zionists into war with the camel jockeys.

@thatguy... Considering that religious folks think Democracy is bad and we should bow on our knees to an imaginary sky jockey and have him run the government (rick perry), you're not far off.

It is difficult, however, not to fall into the cynical suspicion that the «deliberation» was merely the usual bureaucratic jockeying over issues of institutional prestige, resources, and the avoidance of blame.

Limbaugh is a failed disc jockey who couldn't supply enough groupies to the early 70s rock groups to make it big.

hen you hear how the old lady tried to jockey those boys of hers to get the cushy seats right next to the Man — it's hard not to roll your eyes.

This is not to say that there are not conspiracies, rivalries, and jockeying for positions.

I believe Mitt Romney is a good man but I was shocked by his 47 % statement and not to mention referring to some descendants of the Lamanites as «Taco Jockeys.»

What concerns me is that it isn't just a jockeying for power, but also clear ideological alignments with all kinds of injustices.

«Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will among men, and that is just what they did except there were so many of them that there was a fair amount of crowding and jockeying for position, with the result that one particular angel, a girl about nine years old who was smaller than most of them, ended up so far out on the fringes of things that not even by craning her neck and standing on tiptoe could she see what was going on.

Horses and unsaddled jockeys sling themselves round a circular track constructed in a city centre, in a race which lasts just 90 seconds (not 90 minutes!).

Wigg had said, among other things, that «the Jockey Club's discipline is so soft that the rules are ignored and derided;» that «jockeys have developed the business of «covering up» or disguising an attempt to lose into something close to an art;» that «bookmakers, as a profession, are not very intelligent — neither was the dinosaurus and the dinosaurus got stuffed; if they are not careful so will the bookmakers, for the same reason;» and that jockeys «are not as fully developed as the average young male of the same age, so it is quite likely that if their bodies are not fully developed, then their IQs will not be very high, either.»

Before the Derby, Trainer Turk drew Jockey Alvarez to one side in the walking ring and set the strategy: «Just don't be too far out of it at the half - mile pole.

This did not bother Reflected Glory or his Panamanian jockey, Jorge Velasquez, in the least.

Attempting to find and race 20 cats all dressed up in the horses» respective jockey colors just wasn't feasible, so instead, we went for the next best thing: Fred eating treats off of the horses» respective jockey logos.

Shoe, however, did not win the jockey triple until his fifth season.

It is the tale of aveterinarian who tends thoroughbreds as illustrious as Secretariat, of anelegant blonde shopping for a saddle horse in Montevideo, of a jockey not famedfor his virtue bringing home a 57 - to - 1 shot at Belmont Park, of workouts in thedark of night, of a dead horse in a town dump, of a $ 10,000 bet that went wrongand a $ 1,300 bet that went right.

He got into a tussle with our Jockey Club about their refusal to allow the registration of certain obscure horses — some of which are said to have been Arabians — whose papers didn't meet Jockey Club requirements.

These teams play plenty of times early in the season, but, even though they count the same, they won't feel the same as the later games when teams are jockeying for the best odds at drafting Andrew Wiggins, the Kansas freshman who some say is the best NBA prospect since LeBron James.

Not only did the management of many racetracks, as well as the membership of the Jockey Club, fail to protect its customers from crimes involving millions in lost wagers, but it failed to protect the trainers and owners of horses performing in races, too.

Behind Johnson the Cardinals have Buddy Humphrey, who has not been a starting quarterback in seven years, and Terry Nofsinger, who has been a bench jockey for five.

Can't believe that I actually want those knob jockeys to win.................

If we're agreeing that buttballs have their place at all — and I'm not so sure about that, as a keyboard jockey — there's no clearer spot to use one.

Wasn't it only yesterday that the commissioner of baseball had sat in a field - side box to witness a revision of the home run record, while fans (albeit not in neoprene wet suits and not brandishing plastic paddles) jockeyed for the specially marked prize baseball?

The incentive to diminish the incidence of breakdowns will come not only from a beleaguered industry pressured by a public increasingly disillusioned about the treatment of horses, but also from racing's other endangered species, the jockeys.

«It's happened so many times to me, I can't keep track of it,» said jockey Douglas after So Sly's fall.

He has to be persuaded to run, says his jockey, because he is not a very willing horse.

Some felt it wasbecause he couldn't make the weight anymore, but Winkfield laughs at this.Others said the white jockeys were beginning to gang up on the Negroes — and itis true that this had a great deal to do with their virtual disappearance fromthe American racing scene — but Winkfield says he was always treated well.Colonel Chinn, who calls Winkfield «the finest colored man I ever knew, with a heart as big as all outdoors,» blames Jimmy's exodus on thelegislation that made racing illegal for several years in some of the easternstates and moved the big meetings to places like Butte, Mont, and Salt LakeCity and Hamilton, Ont.

Owner Charles Engelhard (far left) has never had a Derby starter or seen a Derby run; Jockey Laffit Pincay Jr. has never ridden in one; MacKenzie Miller (below), who acquired much of his early savvy at Derby-wise Calumet Farm, has not had a starter in 18 years as a trainer.

A good jockey, as Eddie Arcaro was always saying with due modesty, is also a good athlete and not just a handy chauffeur.

At the very first fence Mainstay rapped hard and almost fell, loosening but not quite losing Jockey Joseph L. Aitcheson Jr..

While the NFC playoff teams (not seeds) are all set, the New York Jets and Pittsburgh Steelers are still jockeying for the final playoff spot in the AFC.

Arsenal legend, Ian Wright, and former 20 - times Champion Jockey Sir Anthony McCoy, A.K.A. AP McCoy, recently took part in the rather hilarious «Couldn't hit a barn door football challenge» ahead of the Gunners» FA Cup final clash against Chelsea.

Don't Touch raced to victory in the William Hill Ayr Gold Cup today to extend his unbeaten run to five, in what was an exciting race, with jockey Tony Hamilton only narrowly emerging victorious.

Likewise a «must win» applies «only to teams fighting for a playoff spot, not those simply jockeying for homecourt advantage,» adds Thomas.

From bowtie - wearing ice cream jockeys to places where you can get a scoop of Earl Gray Sriracha (no, I did not make that flavor up), the City of Brotherly Love has it all.

«They're based not on popularity, but rather on shared interests and common experiences, where kids can be themselves and they're not constantly jockeying for position or worried about being knocked down the hierarchy.»